1959 Movies

This 1959 film by the Bureau of Mines (US Department of the Interior.) in cooperation with asbestos manufacturer Johns Manville, describes how asbesto...

The first Vietnamese animated film

“Wonderful World” is a 1959 color travelogue produced by Jam Handy for Coca-Cola and narrated by Ken Nordine. The broad documentary surveying global c...

Argues that a person should be judged by his/her true worth and ability, rather than by economic background or social skills.

A couple earning ten pearls by the sea by accident. When the warlord, who lives nearby and did all the bad things, learned the news, he tried his best...

An episode of the documentary series Americans at Work, produced by Norwood Studios for the AFL-CIO. From week to week, the series looked at differen...

A distinguished sculptor Mr Peacock laid an egg. Thrilled with himself and his work of art, he made it widely known.

Take a look back in time with this Christmas celebration at Grandma and Grandpa's big farmhouse. Shows life, and the holiday celebration in the 1890's...

A film dedicated to the white storks in the Balkan region; the film describes the laying of the eggs, hatching, growing up of the young storks till th...

About life and work in the salt pans

Considered the first Portuguese abstract film. In the already difficult category of fantasy, in fact this production marks an extraordinarily prominen...

A boy lives obsessed with having a crab as a pet, but frees him to take care of his survival

Another educational short from Young America Films designed to answer a burning question.

The mayor sends Jaafar Effendi (with Ismail Yassin in turn) and with him 500 pounds to take him to Cairo to buy a net for his son. But he is robbed by...

In Yokohama, novices wake up early in the Soto zen sect Sojiji temple for their zazen and other practices. A film by Michael Rogge, Dutch photographer...

A story about the adventures of a girl made out of dumplings, who along with a bunny, goes on a trip to Toruń, the land of gingerbread.